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Bonds Of Executors In This District.
FULL TEXT OF THE AMENDAToRY ACT WHICH HAS
BECOME A LAW.


Bonds Of Executors I'm This District.
FULL TEXT OF THE AMENDAToRY ACT WHICH has
BECOME A Law.
Following Is the full text OF an act to amend the
law relating to the bonds OF executors in the Dis
tr1ct of Columbia, which was approved on the
18th instant:
BE it enacted, etc., That whenever hereafter a.
testatOr shall, by last will and testament, request
that his executor or executors be not required to
as such executor or executors then and In such
case the bond required OF such executor or exec
utors shall be In such penalty as thocOurt may con-
slider SUFFICIENT to secure the payment OF the debts
ditioned accordingly, and shall be in no other or
greater penalty: Provided, hoWercr, That the
penalty OF this bond shall not exceed double the
value Of the estate, and when less than this sum
NAV be increased, or an additional bond be re-
ouired whenever it shall be made to appear to the
court that The bond as given is insufficient to
cure the payment OF the debts OF the testator:
itor OF distributee or legatee entitled to take
under the said will shall make it appear
to the court that any executor who has given such
OF the estate that the assets In the hands
Of such executor are In danger Of being
lost, wasted or misappropriated, then and
su @ sa s shall o. redus
him to give additional bond, with security in
penalty SUFFICIENT to secure the interests OF all the
creditors and distributes or legatees entitled to
and on his failure TO give bond or bonds as afore
said as required by the court, within q time
named by such court, his letters testamentary
Sec. g That any will hereafter executed devils
ing real estate In the District OF Columbia from
witch ft shall appear that 1t was the intention OF
IF 70 Wiz bs tasa sn
held to operate as valid devise Of ali such prop
eTty.
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The Commissioners and the Liuuor


To the Editor Of The EVENING STAR
It has been given out by the District Commits.
sioners within the last twenty -four hours that
there are one hundred fewer liquor licenses in the
District this year than there were last year It
Will be seen that no one can tell what period of
time they are talking about The calendar year
may be referred TO- or the fiscal year which begins
July LIST, or the license year which begins Novem-
per lsS Iney may De comparing the fragment Of
the present year with the whole Of some former
year; they may be taking no account OF applicants
VINO nave deposited 500 and are selling without
any further authority; but this much Is certain,
that the statement put forward yesterday and
claimed 10 emanate from the Commissioners is dis
ingenious and erroneous.
The assessors report for the year ending June
30 1852, says there were issued during that wear
Al wholesale and 52S retail liquor licenses max
Ing total issued IN that year OF $40. The asses
sors report for the year ending June 30 1886 says
there were issued during that year SOS wholesale
and 7S9 retail liquor licenses, making q total OF
LISA, and adds. "Detng more than ever before "
These Official reports show that there has been an
increase OF Ia wholesale and 261 retail liquor
licenses granted being an increase Of about 81 per
cent IN the wholesale and almost 80 per centin the
retail liquor licenses, as shown by said reports,
while the population OF the District has increased
only 15 per cent. II. B. NOuITuN.
PRESIDENT District Temperance Alliance.
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To the Editor of THE EVENING STAR:
When il was rumored that the District authori-
ties were about TO give the schoOl-book contractor
the privilege OF free advertisement the official
lists OF textbooks distributed among the school
children, the following protest was drawn up and
numerOusfy signed by the book trade; but subse-
Q0ently understanding that the privilege had been
test was dropped as no. likely TO accomplish
anything. IL shows, however, the views Of the
trade on the subject OF Tree advertising:
To tie Honorable Commissioners Of the District
Of Columbian
Gentlemen: We are informed that In awarding
the contract 10 J. c. Dulaney & Co., OF Baltimore
You agree TO give them the privilege OF appending
the names OF those who may act as their agents
on the slips issued To the scholars. Against this
we beg to enter our earnest protest. for the follow
ing good and sufficient reasons:
Isl To do this Is manifest injustice to the
others who Did for this contract. The schedule
ton, and calls only for the quantities supposed to
be needed for INDECENT pupils and teachers use.
Since, had IL been 1ntimated that such an amount
OF advertising at the expense Oh the District was
10 be done, IL would have made material differ
ence In the bid OF other parties.
2d We protest against this being done, an
act OF discrimination against the trade OF the Dis
trfct and In favor OF who, in violation OF law
without license, establishes agencies and canyasses
for trade in the District.
Sd. We protest against this special privilege
being granted because no benefit accrues TO the
purchaser. viii all agree TO sell at as low a
price, not lower, than the contractor
4th- We protest against this because it is in vio-
lation OF rule OF the school board that no adver-
Using shall be done il the schools.
We ask you, In view OF these considerations to
reconsider your decision, and at least TO grant to
resident booksellers who have TO pay taxes an
equal privilege with one who does not
IL seems 10 be proper that the above statements
should De made public In the interest OF honest
government. Pro Bono PUBLICO.
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HOPEFUL FRIENDS OF wOMANS
CAUSE.
Miss Anthony and Mrs. Isabel 8e~cAex
On the Progress 90 the suffrage Move.
1eme,


Miss Anthony, In speaking this morning 70 a
STAR reporter OF the woman suffrage convention
which met here this week. said that II WAS one az
the most successful they have ever held. The
meetings were largely attended and the speaking
was the best that the ladies could DO. She thinks
that next year they VIII engage one OF the theater
for their meetings not only 10 accommodate the
crowds but so that the speakers may be heard by
all; "although," she added, 81 said in adjournins
the meeting that next year We would meet I'm the
House OF Representatives and I think that we
ought TO hold our evening sessions there at any
rate"
Both Miss Anthony and Mrs Isabel Beecher
Hooker said that they were much gratined with
the debate IN the Senate, because it placed the
enemies OF the movement on record and showed
the weakness OF their argument.
I'VE think said Mrs Hooker, that II what was
argument against our cause, that we have taken
great step forward. Such yapid, empty speeches
nothing but the old slipper and ribbon argument
advanced, which Is I'm effect that men don't want
to discuss with their wives the tar1fI and other
subjects OF this character when they 60 home"
Miss Anthony added that they considered the
entire discussion so favorable 70 their side that
they intended to send out that part OF the Con-
greSsional Record as q campaign document
CALL ON THE PRESIDENT.
Yesterday the ladies called upon the Pres
dent and presented 70 him a memorial urging
him 70 veto the Mormon bill because it
not only disenfranchises polygamous women
but the Gentle women NJ that territory,
and they claim that these women, like other
citizens OF the United States cannot be deprived Of
the franchise unless as a punishment for crime.
Next year the fortieth anniversary OF the ao1ta-
ton OF this movement will be celebrated al the
annual meeting In this city. Mrs. stanton who
forty years ago al meeting In seneca Falls y. Y,
introduced the first resolution favoring the con-
ferrfng OF the franchise upon woman and made a
speech, VIII also make speech on the same sub
Ject at the anniversary celebration.
ARRANGING WORK FOR TIE COMING YEAR
Miss Anthony and the other officers OF the asso-
citation, before leaving the city, propose to
arrange upon a plan OF work for the ensuing
year. The agitation OF this question IL Kept up
through their efforts I'm all the states and before
the legislatures, and upon the officers OF the Ma
tional association devolves the work OF supplying
needed documents 10 some ~ the speakers. and tho
other material for an active an aggressive CAM
pafQn.
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The Ticket-Sellfng Outrage.

To the Editor of TIE EVENING STAR:
A greater farce in the advance opera ticket
selling line never occurred in our city than that
in connection with the sale OF seats by the Ma
tional opera company at Brentanos last Thurs
day. was No. SO in line at 7:30 a. N. At 8
O'Clock about thirty were admitted at the back
door, and no more were admitted at that door till
IL O'Clock, and at p. m. secured my tickets.
Thus, apparently, it took three hours to serve
thirty persons with tickets; but in reality one or
two hundred. who were admitted at the front
door-ostensibly TO purchase books pencils, &c
joined the line and secured tickets before the next
lot OF thirty OF us were admitted. We, ladies'
old and young-members Of Congress- professional
and business men, clerks, &C, Shver1ng with cold,
could see new faces fall into line, after making
purchases(?) and get tickets. A policeman finally
went inside and partly remedied the outrage, but
he had 1t intimated to him that he was exceeding
his authority and took my name and address,
with others, to appear as witnesses in case OF a
report to police Headquarters Spectators were
permitted to have as many tickets as they wanted
feel it my duty to Lay these facts before those OF
your readers who did not suffer as our cOndemna-
ton OF the practice OF selling advance tickets at
any place outside OF the theater building, where
no such outrage could be perpetrated as took
place on Thursday. V4RrrA&
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A Washington Centennial.

To the Editor Of THE EVENING SrAa:
We have had our national centennial celebration
at Philadelphia In 1876 and later on one at Bos-
ton, Yorktown and others that can not now recall
20 mind, now why should not Washington have
hers? July 18th, 1880, viii be the one hunredth
anniversary OF our city the capital of the nation
an event that ought 10 be made memorable In the
history OF our entire country, and no doubt when
the citizens OF this city reminded OF this I'M
portant event through the columns OF your paper
they VIII move without delay IN the matter. There
Is ample time tOmahe all necessary preparations
Tor the great event want 10 offer one suggestion
IN regard TO IL, which Is that suitable honors
should De paid ~ the memory OF Major Peter
Charles L'Enfant, the engineer who planned this
and Is almost entirely forgotten by our people.
1oor readers VIII md an interesting sketch OF The
nIe ana services OF this gallant and patriotic oi
cef Ia HE STAR OF December oath, 1856. The con-
Situtlon centennial will precede ours by one year
Ihe Dtd lor Sne celebration OF that event was OF
iered IN the House YESTERDAY, (TIIesday). Now TOl
our oaii py The District committee. G.
MURDEH>BY A Young yiRGrSIaS.-people In the
ncinlt5 on WOODSTOCK, Va, are excited over a
shocking murder committed six miles aboye there
yesterday morning. samuel Jewell and PaIrieh
Sasdhtush n1o az alteration IN regard 10 a line
renee, WHEN CharieS d. Ward, Sfep-son M Cava.
naugn, said hc would settle the inarrer ne sot
out OF bed In his night cot hes WenT tn,o &c. s
ROOM got shot gun and killed Jewell instanriy
coroner RodsIer, with Commonwealth arTornSI
walker, held an lnqles- the verdict ar-reeinos rrt,
the above statement The murderer "a as cssT7,r,i
last evening by Sheriff Wightnan and was fossa,eS1
IN jail ~-1 d. ioiseo
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TIL We Meet Again.
Written for the EVENING STAB.

The brightest smiles may sometimes mask
The sadest and the coolest heart:
As rarest fow'rs and choicest art,
May, by the mourner's living task.
Hide all the gloom
OF death and tomb
Men love bright and sunny face,
They shun the man Of plants and grief:
So l. from this had learned, in brief,
The art of hiding pain with grace;
And with . smile,
Men TO begmle.
But now stand beside her grave,
Where, by the Necker's classic shore.
We sketched and talked of German loraL
! hear the parting words she gave,
30 sweet and plain:
"Auf Wiedersehen.~
Beside her grave sadly pace.
No more deceit, nor pride, nor art
Can mask with smiles my burden'd hoaRt:
Upon her tomb the words trace,
In grief and pain:
"Auf WiederDehen.~
January 20 1887. MAO
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poodles place, and now that Mrs Cleveland has q
marmoset why not introduce them. They are
cunning, but have voice as shr1n as the creal-
ing OF hinge. They are In other ways detestable,
too. Hence they may hope 10 become fashionable
AMOS j. CUMMINGS IN Hall
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Something About Rock Creek Gene

THE LARGEST CHURCH YARD" IN THE WORLD
The vestry Of Rock Greek parish have rendered
to Mrs Gen. Logan choice lot as place OF burial
for the remains OF her late husband now In beau
tiful private vault in Rock Creek cemetery. It
may be OF interest for some to know where Rock
Greek cemetery is, and what there Is about it so
attractive as 70 make II even temporary place of
rest FOR the remains OF such distinguished citizens
as Gen. Logan and Gen Hazen, as well as the place
OF burial for many OF our oldest and best as well as
wealtheSt families Rock Creek cemetery Is really
church yard on a cemetery SCALE and Is part OF
the Giebe the property OF the venerable parish OF
Rock Greek, and whose veStry, dating from 172G Is
one OF the oldest corporations In the ID. C.
f rne Gie9e, tne g1is Of John Bradfcrd esq,
consists OF 100 acres OF land with graceful undula-
tons and surrounds the parish church. 1t Is sepa-
Church road. The grounds OF the cemetery are
elevated and dry, with many beautiful 0utloOks
and are capable of high cultivation and adorn-
Inent. The veStry have spent on the property In
the last fifteen years some S75 Goo in care and I'm
provements- For this they have much to show.
laIaig handsome ian drives and walks large con-
Columbia The old church walls which are built
OF English brick antedate the revolution; they are
and eedars, pines, firs, beautiful sRrubbery and
flowers. 1t is claimed that this Cemetery is the
larsest ana most hlgny improved church yard In
the world II certainly Is very attractive place
but few people have driven through IL and many
residents OF the District Of Columbia do not know
It's location 1t Is well worth yisI n only tn see
the old iyy-clad chuch, and the large oaks
Major Moore has been asked to recommend an
Increase In the pay OF the patrol wagon drivers
who now receive $50 per month.
Public Printer Benedict requests permission 70
place three-ton platform scale in jackson alley,
adjoining the government printing once, for use
| for weighing coal
The Commissioners have appointed Nichae,
police, District OF Columbia for duty at The coal
yeaE& ' ~ '''''s
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Katie Metz. the bright German servant girl, was
ON the stand In the trial of '.Boodle,, Alderman
O'Nel in New York yesterday and gave fresh proof
of her cleverness Witness again rehearsed the
story OF seeing the i1ve men go into McLaughlins
house In May, 1854 Witness again picked out
ONeill from the pictures In the Grophic. She also
identified Fullgran. who was the only other menu
Der OF the 1884 board Of aldermen In court aI the
members present. Assistant District Attorney
Nic0u tested the witness. He asked her 70 stand
up and see II Cleary was In the room. The latter
was In one corner. She stood up and looked around
for moment. Then Nr. Nic0u asked Cleary 70
stand up. The latter remained seated, but the
man next to him arose. THAT Is not Nj. Cleaxy. /"
excttedly said Mr.. Ntcoll "TheFe he Ia" 0x-
claimed the witness; s'the man next 70 him" Is
was Ciea!y. snc s3 6este9 g neoWn unsac-
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DEATH FROM DOCS BrTE.-J. a. Engel, highly
respected citizen OF Sunbury, Pa, died last Sat-
urday OF 6lood POISONING. Inc result 81 partially
nv dog bOye the eye at New Holland about two
WeekS ago, and frothed at the mouth with cOnvul-
senator George Hearst Is III with malarial lever
n San Francisco, but not dangerously 90
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J.H. Engel, an old and highly resuectea o,,,,.,
o. sunouTy, Pa died saturday OF blssod n1ss.nn
ingf the rsuit OF a partially developed case OF
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Mr. Button Defines His Position.

To the EdtItor Of the EVENING STAR
ind the following paragraph In your issue OF
yesterday:
&C. Button. editor of the Lynchburg VirCinida is
cut N long letter opposing the democratic policy
the stste Mr. Button Was appointed postmaster at
IyDchourg by President Cleveland but failed Of CON
firmation II the Senate"
Now, respectfully ask leave TO say. through the
Columns on Your widely -circulated Journal that
AIN not editor OF the Lyncnburg ITroiHiaa and
nave not been for the last eighteen mOnthS-not
Indeed since assumed the duties OF postmaster
Again. am not Opposing the democratic policy
in the state, but the bad 'pocy" OF forced and
Oee-stded settlement with the public CREDITORS
known as the -Ricdleberger bill" for which we
are chiefly Indebted 10 Mr.. Nahone. the republican
Initt5; states senator from Virginia. whose scheme
has failed 70 settle anything, except 10 provoke a
coiilSion between our state authorities and state
courts and those OF the United states
Net IL De said therefore, 10 the honor OF the DEM
ocrdtc party OF Virginia, that 1J Is In no wise re-
sponSioie for this legislation, which was only
accepted Dy the party after il had exhausted all
Efforts 70 defeat IT, in the hope that IL might prove
10 De settlement indeed But, since il has re-
suited Ia failure and the prosperity OF the state Is
rc1arued, and It's hitherto fair fame beclOuaed
WOULD advise that Z real settlement be concluded
between the state and its creditors upon prfr-
ciples or equity, that would relieve the former
1rotn The appearance OF Designating a constitu-
rOnai provision touching 1.-The obligation OF con-
tracts, and avert conflicts between our state and
FEDERAL jud1caIories- Very respectfully
CHARLES ". Button.
Lynchborg. January 26th, 1881.
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GENERAL REFLECTIONS ON RArs.

Public sentiment In New York Il beginning "a
react against Dr.. NcGlynn. ~
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az MARI r1uOlvod 60 boycott saloons end 70 ar.
clude and ~ nambeO Who oo0e 70 the meeo1
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Negroes On the Move.
SOUTHERN FARMERS vAISLY OPPOSE THE EMIGRATION
OF THEIR HELP.


A telegram from New orleans January q saws:
The movement in Mississippi against the so-called
emigration agents who persuade the negroes go
the swamp country has broken out nercely i'm
Rankin county. AT a meeting OF citizens yester-
day the labor agents who are enticing coloned men
and their families from their homes wer0
warned TO leave the county in twelve
these agents defy this order and visit Rankin,
they win undoubtedly repent their visit The
with labor for the year md now at this late day,
when planting ought to begin, that many OF their
hands have slipped away, and they VIII De unable
to plant as largely as usual The emigration or
negroes from Kinds county to the swamp has al
most ceased, as nearly all those who choose 10 go
have left; but the number pouring into yicksnurg
for settlement Is nearly as great as ever. yhey
come from the more distant counoeA 40 to60o .
day.
Aia is said to be the largest yet observed in any
part OF the South. In many instances they are
upon the verge Of starvation. the nercnanls
and have been Compelled 70 crowd their deosoRa
and many have lost everything by foreclosure
county Tor The Sisssssippi bottoms, and more 40
leaving every day. The farmers are unNn1n& W
see them 60. but are Offering no active oppoauoa
urss, have, however, been taken Il Hinds Amiss
and Rankin counties, and no emigration agents
are allowed to operate IN them.
TERRIsIx REJECTS or CocAnk-Dr. G. D. Brad.
ley, formerly well-kn0wn chicago pny 5aci8u, Wa
found insane Thursday and sent 20 Jefferson In
sane asylum Dr. Bradley y . victim q the coca
ago was worth $4,000 year. ADoQt oxteen
months ego he commenced toezgsnmens on nm.
Nking for Tire SlruQ and it ruined HIM. Hts wife %
now III at the county hospital suffering nom the
drug, which was administered 70 ner tof expdf1.
ment BY her husband He Is sn an1eet wreck, and
Is covered with ulcers caused by hyporo0m1c ~.
| tectzone OF the drug Df. Bradley n q graduate az
tSe Harvard msdioG school and has hvsd n OhL
cage Tor Ten yeafA
Of Nains received 60 boycott saloons end 20 az.
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for which they were never intended. They are
forced to carry engines and trains OF cars fal
when the roads were built, and trains are run
over them at intervals OF one a minute. Often
five or six trains are in sight at once. Every
big bridge called the elevated roads Constant re-
pairing and tinkering alone keeps the structure in
a condition to be used. When 1t gives out it win
Elevators were generally introduced In New
York eight years ago, consequently they have had
no time to grow Old and the record Of accidents
machinery wear out, and eight years use goes q
long way toward it. The building department. has
been on the Lookout e. for Or this and has
keep a close watch on all the elevators In town.
when the elevator accidents begin they win follow
The electric light cables on the shed and the
insulated wires In houses have been up but short
time. Insulation wears Oh, rats bite It on I'm time
There nave recently been many fires from this
cause. A broken cable drops In the street and it's
terrible current kills whomever it touches, or it
crosses telegraph wires and plays havoc with the
dispatches. The city is covered with a net work
of these wires and each one carries death with it.
more and more dangerous as time passes
THE WAGES OF SIN.
On Monday night District Attorney MARITIME and
Recorder Frederick Smyth sat together at the
dinner Of the police captains at Delmonico's
While the prosecutor and Judge who sentenced ex.
Alderman McQuade were thus enjoying canvas.
back duck and champagne McQuade was eating
his first dinner in Sing Sing prison. His was the
plalner fare. A neighbOr OF mine mentioned this
TO Mr. MARITIME, and be said:
Don't speak Of It; It distresses me. This whole
prosecution causes me much sorrow. NcQuade
has seven children and wife. ] cannot but feel
sympathy for them. ONe1l whom am to TRY
next week. has eleven children. They must ali
suffer II he Is convicted for unlike McQuade he g
q poor man. 1t is no pleasure for me to imprisOu
these men; do 1t only in the discharge OF my
Every EFFORT has been made by the friends O,
O'Neil to induce Mr. MARITIME to be lenient. His
one answer Is, II can only follow out the line d
my duty"
DANGEROUS PETa
The fashion In pet dogs used to change from yea,
to year, and this made good business for the dor
fancters. King Charles spite, poodles. bull ter
riers, black and-tans, pugs, ST. Demands and col
lies all had their day. Extravagant prices werS
paid for choice specimens and no woman OF fash
Ion was happy unless she had her dog. Thfn0,
have changed, and the dog fanciers are In despoIr
The fashion now is no dog. This9has undoubtedly
been brought about by the paStuer excitement
So much was said and written about the DANCE
OF dog bites that women begin TO regard thei
Many women have grown SO nervous over trivia
bites that they have FASTENED on to Paris to b
treated by PaStuef. We have heard very little OF
this side OF their reason for going, but the fact
People who have visited Passuer say that h
treats from six TO ten Americans every day. an
that many Of these have been bitten By their pc
dogs.